Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
One of the biggest mistakes I see in law enforcement training is officers competing against everyone except themselves. They don’t want to miss. They don’t want to look bad. They don’t want to get outshot by the officer standing next to them. So they stay inside their comfort zone and shoot at a pace that’s completely unrealistic.
The problem is that growth doesn’t happen inside our comfort zone. Training is where we’re supposed to push our limits and find our redline.
It’s where we’re supposed to discover the speed, distance, complexity, or pressure that causes us to outrun our headlights and for the wheels to fall off. Training should expose our deficiencies, our weaknesses… our Achilles’ heel.
If we see every miss as failure without understanding and diagnosing the root cause, we’ll never be able to correct it. We can’t fix a problem we don’t realize exists. But if we’re willing to pay attention, a miss can tell us exactly where the problem exists and what needs to be fixed.
Personally, I’d rather see an officer push hard enough to find their limits in training than spend an entire day protecting their ego and shooting neat groups at a pace that doesn’t even come close to support the pace of real-life deadly force encounters.
I think training is less about proving how good you are and more about discovering how good you’re not. - @david.acosta.jr
Train Accordingly @achillesheeltactical
One of the biggest mistakes I see in law enforcement training is officers competing against everyone except themselves. They don’t want to miss. They don’t want to look bad. They don’t want to get outshot by the officer standing next to them. So they stay inside their comfort zone and shoot at a pace that’s completely unrealistic.
The problem is that growth doesn’t happen inside our comfort zone. Training is where we’re supposed to push our limits and find our redline.
It’s where we’re supposed to discover the speed, distance, complexity, or pressure that causes us to outrun our headlights and for the wheels to fall off. Training should expose our deficiencies, our weaknesses… our Achilles’ heel.
If we see every miss as failure without understanding and diagnosing the root cause, we’ll never be able to correct it. We can’t fix a problem we don’t realize exists. But if we’re willing to pay attention, a miss can tell us exactly where the problem exists and what needs to be fixed.
Personally, I’d rather see an officer push hard enough to find their limits in training than spend an entire day protecting their ego and shooting neat groups at a pace that doesn’t even come close to support the pace of real-life deadly force encounters.
I think training is less about proving how good you are and more about discovering how good you’re not. - @david.acosta.jr
Train Accordingly @achillesheeltactical
